NAS Walrus Reveal Thread

Thanks to everyone for their submissions and participation tonight, it was a really enjoyable round to score. Well done to Tammy for a severe winner.

I have some welcome new avenues to explore with GLC and Kacey Musgraves. It was great to get a bit of Tom Waits and Paul Brady in there, even if they didn't score too well in the round. I really welcome Sheridan's submission even if it placed last overall. I spent time with the song and listened to something way out of my comfort zone, but it was just too tough a nut for me to crack.

Rikand...your absence is concerning me, this one is for 'us' bud, very apt...

And remember Solsbury Hill

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Good reveal guys, certainly different having two judges and interesting to see how different some of the scoring positions were between you

Well done Tammy, great start! Hopefully catch the next reveal live.

Rikand

Thought I was onto a winner with that one after you submitted that fecker whatshisface to my one. Capaldi chap. Figured they were very similar sort of songs

Ah well. it's still a song that tugs on my heart strings when I hear it, so no regrets with that one

My favourite song from Tom Waits. The prelude is funny

Banjo

Tom Waits is never better than when he sheds his skin and gets on with being his true, cookie craving self

Necro

Rikand wrote: »

Thought I was onto a winner with that one after you submitted that fecker whatshisface to my one. Capaldi chap. Figured they were very similar sort of songs

Ah well. it's still a song that tugs on my heart strings when I hear it, so no regrets with that one

It was grand, nothing wrong it at all imo, just up against the epic belters it was always going to struggle for me

At least I didnt savage it like Stu :pac:

Necro

Necro wrote: »

It was grand, nothing wrong it at all imo, just up against the epic belters it was always going to struggle for me

At least I didnt savage it like Stu :pac:

Tbf, I think Passenger came out the worst from that!

Necro

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Tbf, I think Passenger came out the worst from that!

How much fun would it have been if someone submitted this to every category Stu :pac:

Tammy!

Yay thanks Necro and Stu I love that song!

Will listen to the song entries I don't know from the playlist when I get the chance.

Necro wrote: »

Interestingly no one decided to go for the song that inspired the name of this category

NSFW, folks:

I was seriously considering it!

Yep, Rikand's pissed with me

Rikand

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Yep, Rikand's pissed with me

no, no Pissed with Necro. It wasnt you who submitted Lewis Capaldi to me

Necro

Rikand wrote: »

no, no Pissed with Necro. It wasnt you who submitted Lewis Capaldi to me

You'll probably be more pissed in a minute

Next up, coming Wednesday evening...

Favourite Irish Song: As song-writing goes, we're a nation which punches well above its weight and competes with the world's best. Give us a song that you love which is written by an Irish songwriter/band.
The song has to be written by a songwriter from the Republic or Northern Ireland, but the version you like/submit can be performed by a singer/band of any nationality.

I wouldn't have minded hearing some of these for entries...

or these...

That'll do, pig.

fixXxer

Ah Therapy? how did I forget ye :-/

Electric Nitwit

You mentioned the band I picked in that list at least

I didn't myself on the end, but if anyone's voted Fight Like Apes they'll become my favourite player!

Banjo

A LiveDrive stalwart! Can't remember a single song of theirs but their album names were class. " Body of Christ and legs of Tina turner"

****! I forgot Ham Sandwich!

Tammy!

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I love Van Morrison in The Last Waltz. The suit he wears looks kind of like a onesie and the way he just dissapears off stage! He's like a giant baby off his face

Electric Nitwit

Banjo wrote: »

A LiveDrive stalwart! Can't remember a single song of theirs but their album names were class. " Body of Christ and legs of Tina turner"

****! I forgot Ham Sandwich!

Great song names too. For example, that album had "Pull Off Your Arms and Let's Play In Your Blood" on it

I saw them so often they recognised me, I may have been a bit OTT. Ah damn it, I should have been true to myself and picked them

Pretzill

Some great choices there Stu but I'm fearful because I don't see anything new there (gulps)

Mollyb60

Guys I'm gonna be honest here, I've had so much going on that I completely forgot I had entered this. Oops! I've no idea what I submitted even. I'll have to go looking back through my PM's.

Necro

Mollyb60 wrote:

Guys I'm gonna be honest here, I've had so much going on that I completely forgot I had entered this. Oops! I've no idea what I submitted even. I'll have to go looking back through my PM's.

Well Pink for round 1 anyways if that rejogs your memory in anyway

Mollyb60

Necro wrote: »

Well Pink for round 1 anyways if that rejogs your memory in anyway

I just had a look at my PM there. Makes sense now. I stand by past Molly's choices.

I had 2 songs in mind for this forget which one I entered I do really like both but one is by an artist a lot of people dislike and one not. If I finish last I'll stand by the singing ability and and what I find to be meaningful but simple song writing.

Tammy!

Tammy! wrote: »

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I love Van Morrison in The Last Waltz. The suit he wears looks kind of like a onesie and the way he just dissapears off stage! He's like a giant baby off his face

He's gas, that kick out of him :pac:

Apparently up until just minutes before taking the stage at The Last Waltz, Van was across the street in his hotel room absolutely bricking it with nerves. As talented and famous as he is, he is known for bad stage fright.

As well as that, by the time Van went on-stage, the concert had hit a bit of a lull and the crowd were starting to become a bit jaded and unresponsive. Van's performance of Caravan lit the thing back up and The Band's Robbie Robertson was in awe of Van. Just look at Robbie's expression as Van drops the mic and walks off stage...pure idolatry. Oh and cocaine...lots of it

For anyone interested, this is some nice insight from Robbie Robertson on Van at The Last Waltz, and he even has a laugh about Van's onesie...

http://www.oocities.org/tracybjazz/hayward/van-the-man.info/reviews/lastwaltz.html

Pretzill

Pretzill wrote: »

Some great choices there Stu but I'm fearful because I don't see anything new there (gulps)

Yeah I had a few newer ones to post, but felt I was getting to spam levels with the videos last night so there should have been one more post with these in it...

Not 'new', but a few gems from the 00s...

Coronas, Delorentos, Ham Sandwich etc. are not really personal favourites of mine.

Rikand

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I had 2 songs in mind for this forget which one I entered I do really like both but one is by an artist a lot of people dislike and one not. If I finish last I'll stand by the singing ability and and what I find to be meaningful but simple song writing.

Ronan Keating ?

Rikand

Rikand wrote: »

Ronan Keating ?

I mean how can you ever pause for thought about life and not think its like a roller coaster.

You just got to ride it..

I've spent many hours mulling over the lyrics of it...

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

I mean how can you ever pause for thought about life and not think its like a roller coaster.

You just got to ride it..

I've spent many hours mulling over the lyrics of it...

I wouldn't have accepted it anyway. 'Life is a Rollercoaster' was written by Greg Alexander of the New Radicals and was intended for their second album, but they broke up.

/Buzz 'Dwight Shrute' Killington